Teresa Leigh (Ditton) Herbert

Posted: Thursday, Sep 26th, 2013

Teresa was born Sept. 28, 1959, in Jackson to Sharon (Schooley) and Duane Ditton. She attended school in Pinedale and married her high-school sweetheart, Mike Herbert, in 1976. They later divorced. Teresa has six children: Chris Herbert and Corey Vail of Austin, Texas; stepchildren Forrest, Emerald, Jana and Victor McDaniels, all of Colorado. She has three grandchildren, Lil’ Teresa Herbert, Zoe and Ari Vail of Austin.

Teresa served her country for six years in the U.S. Army from May 1980 to May 1986. She worked as a travel agent in many parts of the country, also as concierge of a couple of big motels in Colorado Springs and Durango, Colo. She was a talented painter and writer. She loved camping and the beach and most of all her family. She was a wonderful mother and dear friend to so many. She was an avid rock hound, always packing home rocks. She will be greatly missed by all.

She and Mike Herbert remarried in August of 2002. Teresa passed away at the V.A. Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., on June 12 after a long hard battle with autoimmune hepatitis.

She is preceded in death by her father Duane Ditton, grandparents Harold and Berniece Schooley and Alfred and Thelma Ditton; aunt Karen Schooley, uncles Roger Edwards and Bert Layland Sr. and cousin Lil’ Bert Layland.

A military graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sept. 28 at the Pinedale Cemetery.